Sharing on Facebook privacy settings
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When I set a post to Share on Facebook, it posts, but its privacy setting is set so only I can see it. I’d like it to be public. How can I have it automatically set to post with the privacy setting of Public?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Change your settings at Facebook to show your updates and links to Public, rather than just yourself and Friends.
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What do you mean “change my settings at facebook?” do you mean the individual post? I’ve done that, but that’s not what I want. I want it to automatically be public. My default setting for posts is public. So I’m not sure where else I can change this.
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Check what? That its public. It is public. Because I manually changed the privacy settings after WordPress automatically published it on my page. It would be more informative for you to see it from my side. I’ll take a screenshot.
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Am I correct in saying you don’t post anything except links to your blog on that FB page? Because I don’t see anything except those links there.
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Is this relevant to my question…. Is there a way to change the privacy settings that wordpress uses to automatically share posts?
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And yet it feels like a wandering conversation. Do you know of a way to changes the settings? No, ok, maybe someone else will.
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Here is the long answer:
No, I have a lot more on my feed. My settings have been “Friends only” until recently as I was having problems with WordPress. I then changed it to Public this week and after I had a few more blog posts post to with the Only me setting. The posts that are showing to you I had to manually change.
Regardless of all of the above, I have never had my default settings set to “Only me.” If my past behavior dictated how the posts would be set, I would assume they would have been set to “Friends only”.
Now that I have taken this rather long detour of explanation, I am no closer to a solution than I was before.
I have posted the relevant information:
my blog
the Share settings of my blog
my privacy settings on facebook
the resulting post on facebookIf this is not enough information to determine a solution, I do not believe any further information will help.
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Nothing you post on FB with the exception of the links that you MANUALLY changed is visible to the Public. That is where the problem lies. I believe you will have to flush the FB cache in order for the settings you’ve got to take effect. http://umairj.com/146/how-to-clear-facebook-shares-cache/
Nothing of the other posts you’ve made with the Public setting are visible to me, so clearly FB is hanging on to tighter settings.
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1 I did not have any other public posts
2 the article states this is for problems regarding title, image, or description of the page being shared. It has nothing to do whatbprivacy settings are applied to the post
3 I have no control over the url that is being sent to Facebook to share. That is generated by WordPress.This does not address issue
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Even posting them to Friends only would be helpful. Having WordPress automatically share my blog post to only myself is not helpful. I do not believe this is how it was intended to work but seeing as I have no settings available to change, I do not know what else I can do .
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You’re right, I was trying to streamline my question to its essentials so that the topic wouldn’t be distracted. I had changed my default setting to Public, instead of Friends only. After I had noticed the problem. The problem continued after the change. I have posted a public post and the problem continues.
After 15 posts in this thread where I have provided a wealth of information, all I have received in help is:
“Change your Facebook settings” and a random article that has nothing to do with my problem.
So the long and short of this is:
Do you know how to change the privacy settings of Facebook posts generated by WordPress’s Share feature?
raincoaster: No. -
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Honestly, if you don’t know what is going on but you still think you know what the parameters are, you’re deranged.
Deranged.
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